Our great peace loving French leader. Wasn't he the one who - against the nuclear test ban treaty - fired off a few down New Zealand way in the 90's?
My point here is that this fact was little reported here and in fact, it was totally glossed over. Chirac is not a 'monkey' as you say. He is a terrorist and responsible for spewing radioactive contaminants far and wide. If there's a war in the Middle East, it won't be because of the U.S., it will be because this one man started a chain of events that cannot be undone.
The next time Bush pulls out of an agreement like the ABM treaty, remember that our friends the French started the ball rolling again. Once they did it, Pakistan and India decided it must be safe to do it. This in turn has accellerated Iran's nuclear program as well.
Where were our wonderful news organizations when this happened? Right... Clinton was in office - everything must've been fine after all...
"They seemed to label anything to the "right" as right-wing or conservative. Things to the "left" generally escaped the left-wing or liberal labels."
This is exactly what I mean. None of these news agencies is going to out and out SAY what their bias is. No, it takes something like Dan Rather's National Guard BS on Bush to really bring it out. That didn't happen because of a 'mistake' - it was proven that it happened out of desparation.
Since I posted I've been labeled as a 'baboon' and other nice names and again, it shows why the Left in this country can't get a grip. Name calling isn't going to change the facts - whatever your point of view. But it DOES make others compare you to immature children. It didn't work making faces at Bush during the last election, and your childishness probably won't help you on the next one either.
GROW UP. Learn what civil discourse means, and then come back and argue from a more educated point of view.
Anonymous Coward says, "Why don't you just admit that the entire mainstream media is really the right wing corporate controlled media? Fox, CNN, NYTimes, ABC, CBS are all in bed with the Bush Administration. They are all propaganda arms of the corrupt, incompetent republican leadership."
Ahahahaa... When I hear 'Anonymous Coward' arguments like yours I always think of that Dead Milkmen song where they go:
"I know what's really going on, it's the queers, they're in it with the aliens! They're building landing strips for gay martians. I swear to god!"
Yes, they are so incompetant that they managed to dupe the majority (again) for the House, Senate, and Presidency. Since the Dems can't lead, and obviously can't follow, your type are being put out of the way.
...trying to convince anyone about a news groups' impartiality. First of all, it's simply not true - EVERY news group has some degree of filtering going on.
The basic problem many on the Left have with Fox is that it's not the party line that is CNN/NBC/ABC/CBS. Ask them what the real difference is between THOSE networks and they really can't tell you. That's because they are, and have always been left-leaning.
Then when one network comes along and at least PRETENDS to present another side, these guys go ape. The reason why Fox News is KILLING the others is because of the obvious difference in reporting. And if you can't understand that mindset, then you're probably still in shock over the election too.
"Bloggers think they're going to be the revolution of the press, and that they'll take the place of the New York Times and Washinton Post, and Newscorp will crumble at their feet."
How about something like, "Ah, you give these guys a printing press and before you know it, everyone's on about the king. I say, hang 'em!"
After all, it wasn't long ago that most people got their news from CBS/NBC/CNN and in less than a few years THAT'S changed.
Elitism works boths ways methinks. Just a thought...
The truth of the matter is, you could stop buying CD's today - EVERYONE - and it wouldn't matter. The licensing alone on music is what really funds the industry.
Besides, people aren't going to buy from indies when all the teenie-boppers know is what plays on MTV. Appealing to 13 year old Amber/Ashley/Amanda probably won't stop her from listening to Ashley Simpson (although something should).
Jobs might stand the best chance at succeeding, certainly - but it will also come at some sort of price. My guess is - YOU will be the one paying it in the form of protected content, or limited types of content being available.
There is a reason why some music is not yet available on iTunes. Every company wants to own the online portion of this business and Apple - while they may be the biggest - is certainly not the only one. And we haven't even gotten to fighting with the big movie houses. You think Sony's Pictures division is going to be interested in supporting someone else's standard? I don't think so. 'Spiderman' is on it's way to a PSP near you but I'll be it would be a LONG time indeed before Jobs would be allowed to sell it.
What makes DVD ubiquitous is the fact that you can find tons of content of every type for it, and know that it will play on your player. TiVO has built a business on a relatively open platform - the user's cable tv.
I'm just not convinced that Apple needs TiVO to do 'iVids' or ultimately what this will get them.
Or how would you like to ride in an aircar to your destination, or 'micro-wave' all of your food?
As usual, good ideas never live up to the reality and the problem here isn't so cut and dried. CONTENT is the issue. All I see Apple gaining is the TiVO name (which in and of itself isn't a bad thing). Content suppliers are the ones who will have to meet consumers halfway and if what's been going on with the DMCA, Broadcast Flag, and other nonsense, I don't see this changing.
Now... If Apple decides to take chances and 'loophole' solutions to let their consumers do what they want with the content - THAT would be interesting. So far, it appears the consumer electronics industry as a whole is rolling over when challenged by the likes of the RIAA and MPAA.
I've never understood how endless pictures of folks flashing the peace sign could be so popular - but our Korean students manage to max out our bandwidth on sites just like Cyworld.
Absolutely I understand that point - which gets back to what I was saying in the first place - very few of your average joes out there know or care about 'the community', what it stands for, or computery stuff in general.
This is why RMS is obscure to so many and yes, that is too bad. I find RMS' arguments compelling and interesting but remember: I'm the type that would.
He does, and he doesn't - depends on how 'smart' you are. Free software is very much like a religion to RMS. He tends to lose people in the arguments he makes because they fail to understand what the big deal is - it's just SOFTWARE after all! To RMS, computing is LIFE! Case in point:
In Sam William's 'Free as in Freedom', he wrote this about RMS,
"One day, while taking a break from writing code, Stallman experienced a traumatic moment passing through the lab's equipment room. There, Stallman encountered the hulking, unused frame of the PDP-10 machine. Startled by the dormant lights, lights that once actively blinked out a silent code indicating the status of the internal program, Stallman says the emotional impact was not unlike coming across a beloved family member's well-preserved corpse.
"I started crying right there in the equipment room," he says. "Seeing the machine there, dead, with nobody left to fix it, it all drove home how completely my community had been destroyed." "
In the age of the 5 second sound bite, average people just don't have the time to read and fully understand the implications of things as esoteric as software patents or SCO lawsuits. To the average PHB, Gates' sweet sounding words sound just as compelling as RMS' intellectual arguments. Therefore, it's easier to dismiss RMS as a quack or an introverted nutjob than to take him seriously and that's a shame.
I would MUCH rather see him write more in this sort of format - short and to the point, than a long winded dissertation that only the already-convinced will read.
Perhaps, but in this case, it seems obvious that MS is doing everything they can to use software patents to stifle OSS and smaller companies. Remember: MS was found guilty of being a monopoly - that's a given. It's not much more of a stretch to assume that Gates' ambitions have not decreased in 14 years.
I thought I'd read that IBM wasn't interested in OpenOffice - at least for their own use and that they were going down a different path. Go figure. I guess it shows how OOo has really matured lately - 2.0 is indeed really looking good.
At any rate, it's always been my opinion that OSS programs can only get better when people are forced to USE them. When we see IBM forcing their employees to go down that road, I have no doubt that we will see some positive improvements in the way these programs operate.
Years ago, Atari sold a line of personal computers and tried to promote them for business use by porting programs like Visicalc. Later it leaked out that all of Atari's corporate machines were PC's. No doubt this was true. There is a saying for this, it's called, 'Eating your own dog food'.
Eyes, ears, etc. WE are the hole. The hole is US! WE are the imperfection.
Ok, sounds silly but I think the second human beings can be 'jacked in', organizations like the HEAA (Headspace Entertainment Association of America) will be calling for brain DRM.
My understanding is what they LIKE and what they can AFFORD are two different things. Garage sizes, parking places, gasoline prices, etc. probably contribute to the kinds of choices they make - as they do for us.
"Sony won't be able to bury them with "Emotion Engine 65 bazillion polygon" bullshit marketing they way they did with Sega."
Don't bet on this when it comes to Japan. They love that Emotion Engine and Super Poly Fighter stuff. Think of the car analogy - what sells for vehicles over there, doesn't necessarily translate to what sells here.
We like'm them big ol' pick up trucks and SUVs. Oh, HELL YEAH!
They, on the other hand, are to be liking vehicles that you are to be having to squeeze into.
The analogy holds true for consoles as well. Xbox is truly a better machine in almost every way to the PS/2, but that doesn't matter to the Japanese. It's all about the games, and it's all about the TYPE of games offered.
HINT: The Japanese will be more interested in Sailor Moon - Rising Fright than NHL: 2006/7/8, etc... Come to think of it, so am I!
"Propaganda works. And you, I and the Chinese get tricked every day..."
I hear this argument a lot from the paranoid Left and the militant right alike. However, as usual, the honest truth is somewhere in the middle. The truth is, the U.S. may be the best informed nation on the planet. That doesn't mean that her inhabitants will respond to it in kind however.
Contrast this with China, or especially N. Korea where the media is tightly controlled by thugs. Where merely thinking aloud can get you put into a re-education camp and you have to admit that we in the West are in a very different situation indeed.
- Has allowed Hollywood and the RIAA to continue it's twisting and warping of copyright law. Surely those folks aren't all conservative types?
- Probably created (and 'protected') this work "the Bean" in the first place?
Please, there's enough blame to go around without pointing to one specific ideology! I just hope BOTH sides can see their way clear enough to bring some sanity back into this process.
Not that I know of. No, minimum security prison is no picnic. I have a client in there right now. He says the trick is, kick someone's ass the first day, or become someone's bitch. Then everything will be alright.
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Our great peace loving French leader. Wasn't he the one who - against the nuclear test ban treaty - fired off a few down New Zealand way in the 90's?
My point here is that this fact was little reported here and in fact, it was totally glossed over. Chirac is not a 'monkey' as you say. He is a terrorist and responsible for spewing radioactive contaminants far and wide. If there's a war in the Middle East, it won't be because of the U.S., it will be because this one man started a chain of events that cannot be undone.
The next time Bush pulls out of an agreement like the ABM treaty, remember that our friends the French started the ball rolling again. Once they did it, Pakistan and India decided it must be safe to do it. This in turn has accellerated Iran's nuclear program as well.
Where were our wonderful news organizations when this happened? Right... Clinton was in office - everything must've been fine after all...
"They seemed to label anything to the "right" as right-wing or conservative. Things to the "left" generally escaped the left-wing or liberal labels."
This is exactly what I mean. None of these news agencies is going to out and out SAY what their bias is. No, it takes something like Dan Rather's National Guard BS on Bush to really bring it out. That didn't happen because of a 'mistake' - it was proven that it happened out of desparation.
Since I posted I've been labeled as a 'baboon' and other nice names and again, it shows why the Left in this country can't get a grip. Name calling isn't going to change the facts - whatever your point of view. But it DOES make others compare you to immature children. It didn't work making faces at Bush during the last election, and your childishness probably won't help you on the next one either.
GROW UP. Learn what civil discourse means, and then come back and argue from a more educated point of view.
Anonymous Coward says, "Why don't you just admit that the entire mainstream media is really the right wing corporate controlled media? Fox, CNN, NYTimes, ABC, CBS are all in bed with the Bush Administration. They are all propaganda arms of the corrupt, incompetent republican leadership."
Ahahahaa... When I hear 'Anonymous Coward' arguments like yours I always think of that Dead Milkmen song where they go:
"I know what's really going on, it's the queers, they're in it with the aliens! They're building landing strips for gay martians. I swear to god!"
Yes, they are so incompetant that they managed to dupe the majority (again) for the House, Senate, and Presidency. Since the Dems can't lead, and obviously can't follow, your type are being put out of the way.
You might try thinking outside the box...
...trying to convince anyone about a news groups' impartiality. First of all, it's simply not true - EVERY news group has some degree of filtering going on.
The basic problem many on the Left have with Fox is that it's not the party line that is CNN/NBC/ABC/CBS. Ask them what the real difference is between THOSE networks and they really can't tell you. That's because they are, and have always been left-leaning.
Then when one network comes along and at least PRETENDS to present another side, these guys go ape. The reason why Fox News is KILLING the others is because of the obvious difference in reporting. And if you can't understand that mindset, then you're probably still in shock over the election too.
"Bloggers think they're going to be the revolution of the press, and that they'll take the place of the New York Times and Washinton Post, and Newscorp will crumble at their feet."
How about something like, "Ah, you give these guys a printing press and before you know it, everyone's on about the king. I say, hang 'em!"
After all, it wasn't long ago that most people got their news from CBS/NBC/CNN and in less than a few years THAT'S changed.
Elitism works boths ways methinks. Just a thought...
...You have to think it in a voice like Bill Buckley's or the millionaire guy from Gilligan's Island.
Yes... Quite!
The truth of the matter is, you could stop buying CD's today - EVERYONE - and it wouldn't matter. The licensing alone on music is what really funds the industry.
Besides, people aren't going to buy from indies when all the teenie-boppers know is what plays on MTV. Appealing to 13 year old Amber/Ashley/Amanda probably won't stop her from listening to Ashley Simpson (although something should).
"Leik, OMG! I just want 2 listen 2 music, k?"
Jobs might stand the best chance at succeeding, certainly - but it will also come at some sort of price. My guess is - YOU will be the one paying it in the form of protected content, or limited types of content being available.
There is a reason why some music is not yet available on iTunes. Every company wants to own the online portion of this business and Apple - while they may be the biggest - is certainly not the only one. And we haven't even gotten to fighting with the big movie houses. You think Sony's Pictures division is going to be interested in supporting someone else's standard? I don't think so. 'Spiderman' is on it's way to a PSP near you but I'll be it would be a LONG time indeed before Jobs would be allowed to sell it.
What makes DVD ubiquitous is the fact that you can find tons of content of every type for it, and know that it will play on your player. TiVO has built a business on a relatively open platform - the user's cable tv.
I'm just not convinced that Apple needs TiVO to do 'iVids' or ultimately what this will get them.
Or how would you like to ride in an aircar to your destination, or 'micro-wave' all of your food?
As usual, good ideas never live up to the reality and the problem here isn't so cut and dried. CONTENT is the issue. All I see Apple gaining is the TiVO name (which in and of itself isn't a bad thing). Content suppliers are the ones who will have to meet consumers halfway and if what's been going on with the DMCA, Broadcast Flag, and other nonsense, I don't see this changing.
Now... If Apple decides to take chances and 'loophole' solutions to let their consumers do what they want with the content - THAT would be interesting. So far, it appears the consumer electronics industry as a whole is rolling over when challenged by the likes of the RIAA and MPAA.
I've never understood how endless pictures of folks flashing the peace sign could be so popular - but our Korean students manage to max out our bandwidth on sites just like Cyworld.
Working as an admin in a jr./high school this was enough to make my tea come out my nose...
Thanks!
Absolutely I understand that point - which gets back to what I was saying in the first place - very few of your average joes out there know or care about 'the community', what it stands for, or computery stuff in general.
This is why RMS is obscure to so many and yes, that is too bad. I find RMS' arguments compelling and interesting but remember: I'm the type that would.
He does, and he doesn't - depends on how 'smart' you are. Free software is very much like a religion to RMS. He tends to lose people in the arguments he makes because they fail to understand what the big deal is - it's just SOFTWARE after all! To RMS, computing is LIFE! Case in point:
In Sam William's 'Free as in Freedom', he wrote this about RMS,
"One day, while taking a break from writing code, Stallman experienced a traumatic moment passing through the lab's equipment room. There, Stallman encountered the hulking, unused frame of the PDP-10 machine. Startled by the dormant lights, lights that once actively blinked out a silent code indicating the status of the internal program, Stallman says the emotional impact was not unlike coming across a beloved family member's well-preserved corpse.
"I started crying right there in the equipment room," he says. "Seeing the machine there, dead, with nobody left to fix it, it all drove home how completely my community had been destroyed." "
In the age of the 5 second sound bite, average people just don't have the time to read and fully understand the implications of things as esoteric as software patents or SCO lawsuits. To the average PHB, Gates' sweet sounding words sound just as compelling as RMS' intellectual arguments. Therefore, it's easier to dismiss RMS as a quack or an introverted nutjob than to take him seriously and that's a shame.
I would MUCH rather see him write more in this sort of format - short and to the point, than a long winded dissertation that only the already-convinced will read.
Perhaps, but in this case, it seems obvious that MS is doing everything they can to use software patents to stifle OSS and smaller companies. Remember: MS was found guilty of being a monopoly - that's a given. It's not much more of a stretch to assume that Gates' ambitions have not decreased in 14 years.
...but first...
RTFA! I think he makes a valid, lucid point here and does a great job explained why software patents tend to be evil.
"OpenOffice is Sun's dog food, not IBM's."
Perhaps, but being the huge promoter of open source software that they are, OOo might as well be IBM's if they mandate and deploy it in their company.
After all, any changes they need to make to the code are strictly their own deal.
I thought I'd read that IBM wasn't interested in OpenOffice - at least for their own use and that they were going down a different path. Go figure. I guess it shows how OOo has really matured lately - 2.0 is indeed really looking good.
At any rate, it's always been my opinion that OSS programs can only get better when people are forced to USE them. When we see IBM forcing their employees to go down that road, I have no doubt that we will see some positive improvements in the way these programs operate.
Years ago, Atari sold a line of personal computers and tried to promote them for business use by porting programs like Visicalc. Later it leaked out that all of Atari's corporate machines were PC's. No doubt this was true. There is a saying for this, it's called, 'Eating your own dog food'.
...Your BRAIN!
Eyes, ears, etc. WE are the hole. The hole is US! WE are the imperfection.
Ok, sounds silly but I think the second human beings can be 'jacked in', organizations like the HEAA (Headspace Entertainment Association of America) will be calling for brain DRM.
AAC support huh? I want to fit 2 times as many songs on there with better quality! Truthfully, I'm really waiting for more of this...
My understanding is what they LIKE and what they can AFFORD are two different things. Garage sizes, parking places, gasoline prices, etc. probably contribute to the kinds of choices they make - as they do for us.
"Sony won't be able to bury them with "Emotion Engine 65 bazillion polygon" bullshit marketing they way they did with Sega."
Don't bet on this when it comes to Japan. They love that Emotion Engine and Super Poly Fighter stuff. Think of the car analogy - what sells for vehicles over there, doesn't necessarily translate to what sells here.
We like'm them big ol' pick up trucks and SUVs. Oh, HELL YEAH!
They, on the other hand, are to be liking vehicles that you are to be having to squeeze into.
The analogy holds true for consoles as well. Xbox is truly a better machine in almost every way to the PS/2, but that doesn't matter to the Japanese. It's all about the games, and it's all about the TYPE of games offered.
HINT: The Japanese will be more interested in Sailor Moon - Rising Fright than NHL: 2006/7/8, etc... Come to think of it, so am I!
"Propaganda works. And you, I and the Chinese get tricked every day..."
I hear this argument a lot from the paranoid Left and the militant right alike. However, as usual, the honest truth is somewhere in the middle. The truth is, the U.S. may be the best informed nation on the planet. That doesn't mean that her inhabitants will respond to it in kind however.
Contrast this with China, or especially N. Korea where the media is tightly controlled by thugs. Where merely thinking aloud can get you put into a re-education camp and you have to admit that we in the West are in a very different situation indeed.
THE worst? Really? Yes, I see the entertainment industry fighting those nasty-wasty Repubwicans at every step. Give me a physical break!
... that it's those of the liberal mindset that:
- Has allowed Hollywood and the RIAA to continue it's twisting and warping of copyright law. Surely those folks aren't all conservative types?
- Probably created (and 'protected') this work "the Bean" in the first place?
Please, there's enough blame to go around without pointing to one specific ideology! I just hope BOTH sides can see their way clear enough to bring some sanity back into this process.
"They have conjugal visits there don't they?"
Not that I know of. No, minimum security prison is no picnic. I have a client in there right now. He says the trick is, kick someone's ass the first day, or become someone's bitch. Then everything will be alright.